A basket of negligible weight hangs from a vertical spring scale of force constant 1500 N/m. (a)

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A basket of negligible weight hangs from a vertical spring scale of force constant 1500 N/m.

(a) If you suddenly put a 3.0-kg adobe brick in the basket, find the maximum distance that the spring will stretch.

(b) If, instead, you release the brick from 1.0 m above the basket, by how much will the spring stretch at its maximum elongation?

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University Physics with Modern Physics

ISBN: 978-0321696861

13th edition

Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, A. Lewis Ford

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